Sanctissima: Vespers and Benediction for the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary ORA Singers & Suzi Digby

• Anonymous: [Bells]:
• 1 Anonymous: [Bells] 00:52
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (ca. 1525 - 1594): Assumpta est Maria (a):
• 2 Palestrina: Assumpta est Maria (a) 06:15
• Anonymous: Deus in adjutorium:
• 3 Anonymous: Deus in adjutorium 00:54
• Assumpta est Maria in cælum:
• 4 Anonymous: Assumpta est Maria in cælum 00:23
• David Bednall (b. 1979): Assumpta est Maria (b):
• 5 Bednall: Assumpta est Maria (b) 03:36
• Anonymous: Dixit Dominus:
• 6 Anonymous: Dixit Dominus 01:59
• Assumpta est Maria ©:
• 7 Anonymous: Assumpta est Maria (c) 00:27
• Maria Virgo assumpta est:
• 8 Anonymous: Maria Virgo assumpta est 00:29
• Olivier Tarney (b. 1970): In Homeward Flight:
• 9 Tarney: In Homeward Flight 04:48
• Anonymous: Laudate pueri:
• 10 Anonymous: Laudate pueri 01:47
• Maria Virgo assumpta est (reprise):
• 11 Anonymous: Maria Virgo assumpta est (reprise) 00:32
• In odorem unguentorum quorum currimus:
• 12 Anonymous: In odorem unguentorum quorum currimus 00:24
• John Joubert (1927 - 2019): In odorem:
• 13 Joubert: In odorem 03:54
• Anonymous: Lætatus sum:
• 14 Anonymous: Lætatus sum 02:04
• In odorem unguentorum quorum currimus (reprise):
• 15 Anonymous: In odorem unguentorum quorum currimus (reprise) 00:27
• Benedicta filia tua Domino:
• 16 Anonymous: Benedicta filia tua Domino 00:29
• Giles Swayne (b. 1946): Benedicta filia:
• 17 Swayne: Benedicta filia 03:51
• Anonymous: Nisi Dominus:
• 18 Anonymous: Nisi Dominus 01:45
• Benedicta filia tua Domino (reprise):
• 19 Anonymous: Benedicta filia tua Domino (reprise) 00:31
• Pulchra es et decora filia Jerusalem:
• 20 Anonymous: Pulchra es et decora filia Jerusalem 00:29
• Kim Porter: Pulchra es et decora:
• 21 Porter: Pulchra es et decora 03:47
• Anonymous: Lauda Jerusalem Dominum:
• 22 Anonymous: Lauda Jerusalem Dominum 02:19
• Pulchra es et decora, filia Jerusalem (reprise):
• 23 Anonymous: Pulchra es et decora, filia Jerusalem (reprise) 00:29
• Ave Maris Stella (a):
• 24 Anonymous: Ave Maris Stella (a) 02:56
• James MacMillan (b. 1959): Ave Maris Stella (b):
• 25 MacMillan: Ave Maris Stella (b) 04:26
• Anonymous: Exaltata est:
• 26 Anonymous: Exaltata est 00:38
• Hodie Maria Virgo cælos ascendit:
• 27 Anonymous: Hodie Maria Virgo cælos ascendit 00:32
• Julian Anderson (b. 1967): Magnificat:
• 28 Anderson: Magnificat 09:16
• Anonymous: Hodie Maria Virgo cælos ascendit (reprise):
• 29 Anonymous: Hodie Maria Virgo cælos ascendit (reprise) 00:35
• Benedicamus Domino:
• 30 Anonymous: Benedicamus Domino 00:31
• Sven-David Sandström (1942 - 2019): O salutaris hostia:
• 31 Sandström: O salutaris hostia 04:03
• Francisco Guerrero (1528 - 1599): Ave Virgo sanctissima:
• 32 Guerrero: Ave Virgo sanctissima 04:01
• Martin Matthew (b. 1976): Sanctissima:
• 33 Matthew: Sanctissima 04:15
• Sven-David Sandström: Tantum ergo:
• 34 Sandström: Tantum ergo 02:58
• Anonymous: Adoremus:
• 35 Anonymous: Adoremus 01:39
• Ave Regina cælorum (a):
• 36 Anonymous: Ave Regina cælorum (a) 01:26
• Felice Anerio (1560 - 1614): Ave Regina cælorum (b):
• 37 Anerio: Ave Regina cælorum (b) 05:19
• Total Runtime 01:25:06

Info for Sanctissima: Vespers and Benediction for the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary

This recording takes us on a fantasy choral journey using the traditional services of Vespers and Benediction as its guide. It weaves hypnotic plainchant around renaissance gems and modern masterpieces.

The music of the great Renaissance masters, Palestrina, Guerrero and Anerio sit alongside distinctive voices from the twenty-first century: James MacMIllan, Julian Anderson, John Joubert, Sven-David Sandström and Matthew Martin.

ORA Singers
Suzi Digby, direction

ORA
is a professional vocal ensemble made up of some of the leading singers in choral music, founded by Suzi Digby OBE. ORA seeks to captivate audiences with the highest standards of musical excellence combined with a fresh and engaging approach to performance. ORA is not just about singing, though that is at the core of its being, it is also about engaging audiences on many levels with a dramatic and all-encompassing approach to performance that makes true ‘events’ out of concerts.

ORA came into being through a belief that we are in a second golden age of choral music, matching that of the Renaissance. The choir’s performances and recordings showcase ‘classic’ masterpieces of Renaissance choral music alongside specially commissioned reflections from prominent and award-winning contemporary composers.



Suzi Digby OBE
was born in Japan and lived in Hong Kong, Mexico and the Philippines before settling in London & Cambridge. She is an internationally renowned Choral Conductor and Music Educator. She has trail-blazed the revival of singing in UK schools and the community over two and a half decades.

Suzi founded and runs the following influential National arts/education organisations: The Voices Foundation (the UK’s leading Primary Music Education Charity); Voce Chamber Choir (one of London’s finest young Chamber Choirs); Vocal Futures (Nurturing young [16-22] audiences for Classical Music); Singing4Success (Leadership and ‘Accelerated Learning’ for Corporates) and The London Youth Choir (a pyramid of 5 choirs, 8-22, serving all ethnic communities in London’s 33 boroughs). Suzi is also a visiting Professor at University of Southern California (Choral Studies) and in 2014 launched her Californian professional vocal consort, The Golden Bridge.

As a conductor, Suzi’s 2011 debut with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (Vocal Futures’ Bach’s St Matthew Passion) was met with outstanding critical acclaim: “Choral wizard”, “The mother of all music”, The Telegraph; “Sensitive and accomplished conductor”, Musical America; “A serious force for good within Britain’s music education system”, New Statesman. Suzi annually conducts 2,000 voices in the Royal Albert Hall in a scratch Youth Messiah which, last year, this was awarded Best Classical Music Education Initiative Nationwide by popular Classic FM vote. Suzi has conducted many major choral-orchestral works with, amongst others: BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Brandenburg Festival Orchestra. Venues at which she has conducted include The Royal Albert Hall; St John’s Smith Square; the Gstaad Festival; Ambika P3, London; St Martin in the Fields; St James’ Piccadilly; King’s College Chapel, Cambridge; and (with the Rolling Stones) O2; Glastonbury Festival and Hyde Park.

Suzi is a Trustee of Music in Country Churches, among other music and education charities. She is Past President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians and was Acting Music Director of Queens’ College, Cambridge (where she founded and runs the Queens’ Choral Conducting Programme). Amongst many TV appearances, she was judge in BBC1’s hit show, Last Choir Standing with over seven million viewers. She regularly adjudicates choral competitions and gives workshops and lectures around the world.

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